Hi,

I have written a socket program which connects to scs.yahoo.com(y! messenger service), but I get the "Connection timed out" error for connect() system call everytime.

Is there any system call available to increase the time out period ?

TIA!

Regards,
Valluvan

would be great to know what language u use

Hmm. Try strace. Very very useful for tracking strange happenings. Say "man strace" to find out more.

You perhaps have some sort of dumb firewall blocking your connection. Redhat out of the box installs one.

Hi cyent,

When installing Redhat I have chosen "No firewall" setting only.
But I am behind the proxy.. From the same machine I am able to connect to yahoo messenger through Yahoo's messenger client.


But now I am facing the new problem,
gethost() system call returns the error :Resource temporarily unavailable

dig command also says "Connection timed out; no servers could be reached"

Previously these two were working, but I have reinstalled RH8.0 and now these two are not working.

I have updated my /etc/resolve.conf accordingly.

Still not able to solve this problem..

j-ray: I am using C only!

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Valluvan.

Look in your /etc/resolv.conf and get the ip address of your nameserver.

Try ping it.

If you can't, then evil things are afoot.

If you can't ping elsewhere, then you network setup is stuffed.

If you can ping elsewhere, but the nameserver seems to be dead. Check the ip address or contact your isp.

Hi cyent,

I'm able to ping the nameserver.

I am able to connect web through Xwindows also..

But still I am not able to use gethost()...


Any help?

Thanks and Regards,
Valluvan

Hmm. First a small pedantic correction. XWindows is merely a program that controls your graphics card and allows access to it in a controlled and distributed fashion. ie. It has nothing to do with the web.

Perhaps you accessed the web from a web browser that displayed the results using X windows.

OK, that small silly remark out the way... On to the next. You say you are not able to use "gethost()", hmm, neither can I, as far as I can see their isn't such a standard function. There is a "gethostbyname()"

Probably what we need now to debug this further is a clip of the output of "strace -v". Run your program like so....
strace -v -o tlog ./yourprog youropts
Then find the area in the file "tlog" where gethostbyname is invoked and post that.